New American Paintings, Vol. 88

Joshua Bronaugh’s sensual paintings engage with a sense of immediacy; gesture and medium are both expression and experience of the sensual. The media used are surprising; oil paint, motor oil, alkyd, and gold float on plastic support. The wolf atop a counter in a brasserie in Change is the Disease, Doctor, Both is Bronaugh’s twenty-first century equivalent of a Joseph Bueys spirit guide, with loose brushwork falling somewhere between the autobiography of gesture and concrete thought (another Bueysian method).

From the Juror’s Comments, by Barbara O’Brien, curator of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO